The eyes get you first. They are not looking away, and they are not asking how you feel about that.
A face, close up, tilted at an angle that reads as a dare. Hot pink, cyan, black outlines thick enough to see from the hallway. Four or five flat colours doing all the work, no shading, no softness anywhere.
Look closer at the skin
Luna left the halftone dots showing. Those little printed circles that usually hide inside a comic panel are right there on the face, and the colour registration sits a hair off the outline in places, like a screen-print pulled fast and proud. Most artists would clean that up. She keeps it, because the picture is about being seen making noise, not about being polite.
That is Neon Havana, her whole thing: flat, loud, hard-edged colour that reads across a room. One of our critics, Charlotte, put it better than we can – a face that owns the room the moment you hang it, neon confidence at a price that doesn’t ask permission.
What happens once it is up
Your friends will comment on it before they sit down. It works in a small place, a rental, a hallway, above a desk on a video call where somebody always asks about it. Nothing in your room has to change to make room for it – it just starts running the wall.
Sizes and the price
A high quality print of a digital artwork on heavyweight satin paper. Satin matters here: matte would drink these neons and hand you back something dull. Printed edge to edge, no white border, so the colour goes right to the corner.
Portrait 16 x 20 in (41 x 51 cm) is preselected at $79. Go 11 x 14 in (28 x 36 cm) for $49 if it is a narrow spot, or 18 x 24 in (46 x 61 cm) for $109 if you want it to be the first thing anyone sees. Free shipping in the continental US, rolled in a tube – drop it in a frame you already own, or pin it up bare and let the edges show.
One honest thing
This is loud. If you like quiet, beige and calm, it will fight you. If you want your wall to have an opinion, take it home. Otherwise go look at the rest of Luna’s work, or follow her and see the next one before anyone else does.
One is a piece. Two is a set. Three is a collection.
Almost nobody stops at one. A second work by the same hand turns a wall into a pairing. A third turns it into something you chose rather than something you bought. There is one other work by Luna Vasquez on the wall right now.
